Tuesday, January 15, 2019

grammaticality - Adjective phrase for a time?

I wrote a sentence that I don't know is correct.




The presence of the doctor after the incident matters to every patient.




I think "after the incident" is used as an adjectival phrase.



But there are phrases like day after tommorow, and day before yesterday...
so, is the sentence I wrote grammatically correct with the adjdctival phrase "after the incident"?




Reason I am asking is because I thought that whiz-deletion was used. And when I try to restore the original version if this sentence, it becomes presence of doctor (which was) after the incident, which sounds nonsensical to me.



Is the whiz-deldtion used, or is it the product of other grammar structure?

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